Award Abstract #0648985
REU Sites: DIMACS/DIMATIA U.S./Czech International REU Program

NSF Org:	CCF Division of Computer and Communication Foundations
Initial Amendment Date:	February 6, 2007
Latest Amendment Date:	June 26, 2007
Award Number:	0648985
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Eun K. Park CCF Division of Computer and Communication Foundations CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date:	February 15, 2007
Expires:	January 31, 2010 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$390000
Investigator(s):	Fred Roberts froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Rutgers University New Brunswick 3 RUTGERS PLAZA NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ 08901 732/932-0150
NSF Program(s):	WORKFORCE IN THE MATHEMAT SCI, EAPSI, RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES
Field Application(s):	0000912 Computer Science
Program Reference Code(s):	HPCC,9251,9250,9218,5979,5930
Program Element Code(s):	7335,7316,1139

ABSTRACT

DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer

Science, headquartered at Rutgers University, will run an REU program in

collaboration with DIMATIA, the Center for Discrete Mathematics,

Theoretical Informatics, and Applications, based at Charles University

in Prague, Czech Republic. This program will provide an exciting

research experience for undergraduates that will help them decide on

future educational and career paths. 17 students from all across the

U.S. and from the Czech Republic will be recruited annually. Most of the

program will take place at DIMACS, but some of the U.S. students will

spend time at DIMATIA and all participants will get a taste of the

international scientific enterprise. The program will include a pilot

academic-industrial co-mentoring program and will collaborate with a

Department of Homeland Security REU program at DIMACS.

Scientific fields to be emphasized include graph theory, computational

geometry, logic and complexity theory, and combinatorial optimization,

with applications to DNA topology, biomedical engineering,

epidemiological modeling, economic applications involving e-commerce,

information management in massive data sets, etc. Students will be

exposed to modern industrial research on network analysis, sensor

location, and internet auctions, as well as to homeland security

applications of methods of computer science and mathematics. The program

will have broader impacts through increasing scientific collaborations

between U.S. and Czech researchers and students and, through

dissemination of the model, raise the awareness of a large community

about opportunities for young people in international cooperation and

collaboration. The program will also include career counseling and

guidance on how to make presentations and should greatly influence the

choices about further education and future careers of the students

involved.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Tolstorukov, MY; Colasanti, AV; McCandlish, DM; Olson, WK; Zhurkin, VB.  "A novel roll-and-slide mechanism of DNA folding in chromatin: Implications for nucleosome positioning,"  JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY,  v.371,  2007,  p. 725 - 738.  


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